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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6930
Tracking Number - 2062
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Approved, Permanent Archive - 2003-09-04
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2003-05-27
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: 620100020
- Contact Person: Linda Moody
- Phone: 9744267
- Email: lmoody@hsc.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 6930
- Full Title: Research Seminar in Hospice and Palliative Care
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: D -
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- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): RES SEM HOSPICE/PALL CARE
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: none
- Corequisites: none
- Course Description: Focus on analysis of contemporary research issues in palliative care and end of life with special emphasis on design, sampling, statistical analysis and measurement problems common to research in the area.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: x
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? x
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? x
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) x
- Objectives: 1. Identify common bioethical issues related to research of patients and caregivers receiving hospice care.2. Analyze common problems in design specific to intervention studies in palliative and end of life care.3. Apply appropriate statistical strategies related to sampling and power analysis.4. Identify common measures used in palliative care and end of life research.5. Identify strategies for overcoming problems related to data collection and analysis.6. Critique major studies in the field of palliative care and end of life research.
- Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify common bioethical issues related to research of patients and caregivers receiving hospice care.2. Analyze common problems in design specific to intervention studies in palliative and end of life care.3. Apply appropriate statistical strategies related to sampling and power analysis.4. Identify common measures used in palliative care and end of life research.5. Identify strategies for overcoming problems related to data collection and analysis.6. Critique major studies in the field of palliative care and end of life research.
- Major Topics: Bioethical issue related to conducting research at the end of life Methodological Issues in conducting research at the end of life Analysis of selected studies
- Textbooks: SELECTED REFERENCES American Psychological Association (1996). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (4th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Author. Available from the HSC Bookstore. Selected readings from related research journals:The Hospice JournalThe Journals of GeronotologyNursing ResearchAmerican Journal of Hospice and Palliative CareStatistics in MedicineNew England Journal of Medicine
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.